{"id":7067,"date":"2019-06-24T13:15:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T06:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/?p=7067"},"modified":"2019-07-01T15:44:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T08:44:40","slug":"7067","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/7067\/","title":{"rendered":"Same Veggies in Different Names"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”7068″ img_size=”full” css_animation=”left-to-right”][vc_column_text]Same Veggies in Different Names<\/span><\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Thai people in different regions refer to some vegetables with different names, according to their local dialects. Some of the names of vegetables in Thai are similar to their English names. The differences in their names partly result from the dissimilar versions of American and British English. For the case of American English, many names were introduced from the languages of immigrants. Interestingly, it is not always the British English versions of vegetable names that have the most difficult spellings.<\/p>\n

This issue brings about confusion not only to Thai students, but also to native speakers of English. Here are five examples.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”7070″ img_size=”medium” css_animation=”left-to-right”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Arugula & Rocket<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 Both signify the same kind of peppery green leaves popularly used in salads. Etymologically coming from the Latin root \u2018eruca,\u2019 this vegetable has been consumed in Mediterranean regions since ancient times. The name turns to be \u2018ruchetta\u2019 in ancient Italian and \u2018roquette\u2019 in French, finally adopted in British English as \u2018rocket.\u2019<\/p>\n

Americans began widely using the term \u2018arugula\u2019 in the 1980s, introduced by Italian immigrants and descendants, assumingly following the Italian term \u2018rucola.\u2019[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]Beets & Beetroot \u2013 beetroot<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 \u2018Beetroot,\u2019 also known as \u2018table beets\u2019 or \u2018garden beets,\u2019 are referred to by Americans simply as \u2018beets.\u2019 This vegetable with dark violet bulbs as its roots can be eaten either fresh, cooked, or pickled. It belongs to the same family as \u2018sugar beets,\u2019 but with different nutritious and genetic features. The latter has white bulbs, and is planted for the purpose of having its sugar content extracted. Meanwhile, \u2018beetroots\u2019 offer no distinct sugar, but can be used for natural coloring.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”7072″ img_size=”medium” css_animation=”left-to-right”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”7074″ img_size=”medium” css_animation=”left-to-right”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Courgette & Zucchini<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 Basically, both are edible forms of the cucurbit plant. The word \u2018courgette\u2019 is used among British and New Zealand people, while that of \u2018zucchini\u2019 is used in North America and Australia. Its skin colors can be varied from yellow to dark green. These different names in English presumably come from the French loanword for the former, and from Italian for the latter.<\/p>\n

Another distinction deals with the matter of sizes. Courgettes are the young finger-size ones with a length of between 4 to 14 centimeters. Zucchinis are larger. The very large ones can also be called \u2018marrow.\u2019[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]Scallion & Spring Onion<\/strong> <\/span>\u2013 Both look alike, but are not the same thing. In comparison to scallions, spring onions have smaller bulbs with a more mellow and sweeter taste, while its green leaves are more pungent. The distinction is its harvesting season during the spring, which is the origin of its name, while scallions are available throughout the year. Nonetheless, scallions are sometimes called spring onions in the UK and Canada. Another confusion comes because scallions look the same as green onions when they are young.<\/p>\n

Leeks and chives are share a similar configuration of having green leaves with a white stalk at the base. The former has a garlic-like taste and with longer stalks than others, while the latter has slimmer stalks and bulbs with a bit harder texture.<\/p>\n

All terms usually appear in the plural form with -s<\/em> at their end due to the use of many of them at the same time in cooking.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”7078″ img_size=”medium” css_animation=”left-to-right”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”7076″ img_size=”medium” css_animation=”left-to-right”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Eggplant & Aubergine<\/strong><\/span> \u2013\u00a0Both are the same vegetable regularly appearing with dark skin, usually a dark violet, with their origin from the Indian subcontinent. While Americans call it \u2018eggplant,\u2019 the British call it \u2018aubergine\u2019 following the origin of the French term. One assumption about the coining of the term \u2018eggplant\u2019 is that Americans in the 18th<\/sup> century compared the white and yellow versions to similarly appearing goose eggs.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Same Veggies in Different Names \u2013 Thai people in different regions refer to some vegetables with different names, according to their local dialects. Some of the names of vegetables in Thai are <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":7069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7067"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7214,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions\/7214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}